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About Arup
Arup is the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most prominent projects in the built and natural environment. Working in more than 140 countries, the firm’s designers, engineers, architects, planners, consultants, and technical specialists work with our clients on innovative projects of the highest quality and impact. As a wholly independent organisation, we are owned in trust for the benefit of our employees and their dependants: with no shareholders or external investors we determine our own business priorities and direction.
About Arup University
Arup University (AU) is Arup's engine for exploration, innovation, and adaptation integrating three critical capabilities:
What Makes AU Different?
Most professional services firms have training programmes or research teams. What makes AU unique is:
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About the role
Futures Insights Programme Lead is an Associate role within Arup University’s global Foresight capability, offering an opportunity to shape how Arup captures, analyses and shares futures-facing insight.
You will help develop and lead a new strategic approach to horizon scanning and insight management that inspires fresh thinking, challenges assumptions and informs decision-making, while contributing to Arup University’s broader information architecture and knowledge ecosystem.
In this role, you will connect Foresight’s scanning work with the wider Discovery, Expertise and Knowledge agendas across Arup University (AU). You will work closely with colleagues across AU and build strong relationships with expert communities and information sources inside and outside Arup, ensuring emerging insight is translated into meaningful value for clients and the firm.
Reporting directly to the Global Foresight Leader, you will sit on the Global Leadership Team for the Foresight capability and play a visible leadership role in shaping its direction. Based in APAC, you will also act as a senior Foresight touchpoint for colleagues and clients across the region, bringing a global perspective to regional opportunities and challenges.
You will lead and support people as well as ideas, with ongoing line-management responsibilities and oversight of cross-regional teams delivering a diverse portfolio of insight projects internally and with clients.
This is a role for someone excited by possibility. It offers the chance to explore future challenges and opportunities with experts across the built environment and beyond, apply foresight methods to emerging issues, tell compelling stories with data, and help take a longer view of change to shape strategy, guide decisions and set direction.
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What We Offer You
At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.
Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair, and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.
We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling eligible members to share in the results of our collective efforts.
Different people, shared values
Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.
Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Arup provides an environment where you will make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.
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Our Application Process
Please apply directly through our applicant tracking system. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by Talent Acquisition to discuss next steps. Stay safe online – Arup will never ask for your bank details as part of our recruitment process.
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